
Tele-care refers to the computerized services which provide remote delivery of care to patients in their own home through telecommunications. Tele-care medical equipments help in real time emergency, improves treatment of chronic disease by delivery of healthcare services to the clients, protects peoples by monitoring vital signs in their home, reduces cost of care delivery, supports expert delivery and provide comfortable environment of health care to the patients. Need for cost and time effective care delivery and demand for home patients monitoring systems are some of the main factors that are driving the tele-care medical equipment market. Some of the tele-care systems help to predict problems and reduce the chances of problem occurring. On the basis of service type, tele-care medical equipment market can be segmented into tele-consultation, tele-monitoring, tele-education, tele-training, tele-care and tele-surgery. Tele-care technology includes heart failure telemonitoring, diabetes remote monitoring, home based care, blood pressure home monitoring, mobile health clinics and healthcare monitoring solutions technology. Some of the major advantages of tele-care medical equipment are no need for hospital stay, reduction in hospital visits for routine check-up. In addition, patients understand more about their conditions and learn self management about it.